Image of an advertisement for spice merchants C.J. Fell & Brother of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; spice plants in flower with tropical birds and foliage form an elaborate decorative border for text; a hilly landscape scene of a town along a waterway, American flags, and reclining woman with Union shield and "E Pluribus Unum" banner at top center; list of spices and other products C.J. Fell & Brother "manufacture and have for sale" in left and right margins; line art of image with their five-story building at center in lieu of text and a key to the 11 spice plants pictured on verso. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Herline & Co. printed from 1866-1872. "Printed in colors by Herline & Co. No. 2 Nth. 6th. St. Phila."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 47.31 x 40.96 cm (18 5/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Advertising--Spice trade Flags--Pictorial works Flowers--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Women--Pictorial works C.J. Fell & Brother Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Food Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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